On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:27, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > 2011/7/11 Thomas Goldammer <tho...@googlemail.com> >> > How many people don't >> > understand any Wikipedia today? >> >> Of those who can read at all, probably much less than 1%. The problem >> are those people who can't read. > > For persons who can't read it's far better to learn reading first in > their own language.
For many of these languages, teaching someone to read in their native language would first require inventing a written form for that language, and then creating a body of literature. Many languages have no literary tradition, and the only written material is linguistic studies by outsiders. -- Mark Wagner _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
